WINSTED >> Freeman Burr assumed the duties of the Superintendent of Schools and Board of Education as the new state-appointed receiver for the Winchester school district Tuesday, according to a letter to district officials from Connecticut Depar...

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TORRINGTON >> The Torrington Firefighters Association Local 1567 annual Christmas for Children Toy Drive kicked off on Black Friday, Nov. 25. Donations of new unwrapped toys and gifts for children from the age of infant to 18 years old are needed.

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COLLINSVILLE >> The popular “Music For a Joyous Season” concert returns to the Collinsville Congregational Church for the eighth consecutive year on Sunday, Dec. 11, at 4 p.m. Presented by the Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund as part of the Shepherd Music Series, the concert has become a holiday tradition in Collinsville.

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TORRINGTON >> You’ve got to make your free throws. It’s a long-standing truth of basketball, especially in the Torrington Elks Club Hoop Shoot, which was held last Friday, Dec. 2 in the Vogel-Wetmore gymnasium.

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BANTAM >> During the summer of 2015, Bantam resident, Mary Osborne, 92, had an energy-usage assessment conducted on her home. Through a state-wide energy-saving program for residents on fixed incomes, the efficiency of her home was significantly upgraded in 2016 at no cost to herself.

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For the first time in 25 years, Uzbekistan has a new president, after Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a former prime minister, won an overwhelming victory with 88.6 percent of the vote held on Sunday. Mirziyoyev, who served as acting president since the death of longtime ruler Islam Karimov on September 2, faces a bevy of political, economic, and geopolitical challenges as he seeks to fill Karimov’s very big shoes.

Reid Standish
WP Bloomberg|11 hrs ago

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Britain will begin talking to the European Union about its impending divorce when Prime Minister Theresa May formally starts the process — by the end of next March, she says. And while the substance of those negotiations is unclear, their length is not: two years, which is not nearly enough time.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s team got themselves tied up in knots trying to defend his call with the president of Taiwan, a move that would inevitably be seen as a rebuke to China. Adviser Kellyanne Conway insisted the president-elect understood we have one president at a time and did not mean to signal any change in policy. (So was he unaware of the call’s significance?)

Jennifer Rubin
The Washington Post|11 hrs ago

Politics

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he’s calling upon all of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees to release their tax returns to the Congressional committees that will oversee their nominations.